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Microsoft Office 365 - Exchange Online Implementation and Migration - Second Edition

By : David Greve, Ian Waters
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Microsoft Office 365 - Exchange Online Implementation and Migration - Second Edition

By: David Greve, Ian Waters

Overview of this book

Organizations are migrating to the cloud to save money, become more efficient, and empower their users with the latest technology. Office 365 delivers all of this in a reliable, fast, and ever-expanding way, keeping you ahead of the competition. As the IT administrator of your network, you need to make the transition as painless as possible for your users. Learn everything you need to know and exactly what to do to ensure your Office 365 Exchange online migration is a success! This guide gives you everything you need to develop a successful migration plan to move from Exchange, Google, POP3, and IMAP systems to Office 365 with ease. We start by providing an overview of the Office 365 plans available and how to make a decision on what plan fits your organization. We then dive into topics such as the Office 365 Admin Portal, integration options for professionals and small businesses, integration options for enterprises, preparing for a simple migration, performing a simple migration, and preparing for a hybrid deployment. Later in the book, we look at migration options for Skype for Business and SharePoint to further help you leverage the latest collaborative working technologies within your organization.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft Office 365 – Exchange Online Implementation and Migration - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure – Exchange Hybrid

Changing your MX record in a hybrid configuration


At some point, you will want to consider moving your inbound mail routing from your on-premises mail system to Office 365's Exchange Online Protection (EOP) for Exchange. If you do not have any on-premises gateway mail routing requirements, you may want to consider this move when most of your mailboxes are in Office 365. If you plan to do a flash cut-over, then you may want to consider the MX change right away.

Moving your MX record does not mean that on-premises mailboxes will stop receiving e-mail. This is why the hybrid option is available for Exchange on-premises organizations. You may have other on-premises mail routing requirements, which should be evaluated before changing your MX record.

To get started, we first need to set up your MX record to route mail to Office 365 EOP:

  1. Go to the Domains section within the Office 365 admin portal (https://portal.office.com) and click on the domain you would like to change the MX record for, as shown...